Ovarian Cancer Detection Update

New method may help detect ovarian cancer earlier.
NBC Nightly News (5/20, story 2, 2:35, Williams) reported, "We have a big health news story for women tonight." It is "about ovarian cancer," which is "often called the silent killer because it's so often diagnosed late and that it's so often fatal."
The AP (5/21, Marchione) reports that "a simple blood test followed by ultrasound exams as needed found deadly tumors before they caused symptoms, and without giving too many false alarms," according to research scheduled to be presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology's annual meeting.
Bloomberg News (5/21, Randall) reports that "researchers were able to detect early development of three aggressive cancer cases and two borderline tumors when doctors monitored fluctuations of a protein known as CA-125, according to the study of 3,252 women released...by the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston." According to Bloomberg News, "The CA-125 protein was identified as a tumor marker in the 1980s and has long been used by doctors to watch for relapse in patients who have been treated for ovarian cancer." But, "until now, the test was considered a failure at detecting new cases, because it missed some tumors and falsely identified too many healthy women as having cancer."
The Houston Chronicle (5/21, Ackerman) quotes Karen Lu, MD, the study's principal investigator, as saying, "If the study's findings are confirmed in larger studies, I think this new strategy will be practice-changing."